Talk:Nicolas Eymeric

Spelling Nick's Name
Hey Joan_sense_nick is there any reason for changing the spelling of the first given instance of the name to "Nicolau Aymerich"? The most common english spelling seems to be (after a quick google) "Nicholas Eymerich", with the spelling, "Nicholas Eymeric" appears most often (by a vast majority) in books on the subject (a search on Google Books which is, admitedly, limited), while the title page of the 1578 impression of the Directorium gives his name as "Nicolai Eymerici" (Latinised, i would assume), by contrast, i found only 9 results for the spelling, "Nicolau Aymerich". Since you seem to have a much greater knowledge of the history of the Iberian Peninsula than i do, i'm not trying to be argumentative, just curious as to reason... and trying to find some sort of a workable consensus. Even in researching the article all the varient spellings drove me near to madness :P Ignus 01:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello Ignus. Please note that the spelling changes were made by an anonymus user: 161.116.236.28, not by me. Instead of this, I replaced the useful lost information on different spellings. On the other hand, I think that "Nicolau Aymerich" is a correct way to spell it nowadays, since it's the current Catalan language spelling. Aymerich is still a usual Catalan surname. Nicolau is catalan for Nicholas, (Nicolas is the Spanish language form). It's a WP criterium to use the local language spelling if possible. --Joan sense nick 02:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

All right, how about this then, i create as the main page one entitled "Nicolau Aymerich", and turn the current page into a redirect (and fix the various links that link to the current page). And then i'll add a more detailed note about his name... somewhere in the article, to (hopefully) clear up some confusion surrounding his name, and make some independant research easier. What do you think? Ignus 03:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Good work! --Joan sense nick 10:36, 16 January 2006 (UTC)